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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

India's missile shield test fails

Prithvi IIIndia's homegrown interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles failed during a test on Monday, military officials said.

The test was abandoned when the radars following the target, a nuclear-capable missile, lost track of it after it blasted off from a site 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Bhubaneswar in eastern India.

"The 'hostile' missile went off the radars after it took off and deviated from its trajectory and so the interceptor was not launched," an official from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said, asking not to be named.

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2 comments:

  1. Vivek16/3/10 10:49

    The target was faulty so you are calling the weapon bad? What kind of logic is this?

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  2. Unknown16/3/10 14:09

    I don't see a statement on the weapon, the article is about a failed test.

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